broadbrim

American  

[brawd-brim] / ˈbrɔdˌbrɪm /

noun

1. a hat with a broad brim, especially one with a flat brim, as that once characteristically worn by Quaker men and common today only among certain conservative Quaker groups.

   My little ones don’t go out in this sun without their broadbrims!

2. Older Slang: Sometimes Offensive. Sometimes Broadbrim a Quaker.

   It was nice growing up where most of the neighbors were broadbrims.

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broadbrim British  

/ ˈbrɔːdˌbrɪm /

noun

1. a broad-brimmed hat, esp one worn by the Quakers in the 17th century

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Etymology

Origin of broadbrim

First recorded in 1680–90; broad + brim ¹

Example Sentences

The soldiers had on broadbrim hats with the crown of the hat shaped into a cone.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

So hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping old broadbrim straw on head and easy shoes on feet, havn't I had a good time the last two hours!

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

So Jim he popp'd first through the skirt of his coat, And then through his collar—quite close to his throat; "Now one thro' my broadbrim," quoth Ephraim, "I vote."

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

But on his rapid way he had found time to fling his hazel stick into a corner, his rough broadbrim upon the table, and these few emphatic words at his nephew: "Axel, follow me!"

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules